It’s Week 23 of Tuesday Travel Trivia, the weekly travel quiz that’s sweeping the nation, assuming you interpret that phrase very loosely.
Last week’s big winner was Matthew O’Connor, who shocked the world with a perfect 10 out of 10. I’ve asked Obama to call and congratulate him but you never know with these politicians.
Think you can become this week’s champ? Read the questions below and leave your answers (not Google’s) in the comments. Buena suerte!
- At around 400 meters below sea level, what is the lowest point on earth?
- The country of Lesotho (pictured) is an enclave entirely surrounded by which African nation?
- True or false: There is a Lonely Planet guidebook that covers North Korea.
- What Arabic word that begins with “m” means “school”?
- Which 1982 Toto song– and I’m sure you know many– contained the following line, once voted the worst song lyric of all time: “The wild dogs cry out in the night, As they grow restless longing for some solitary company, I know that I must do what’s right, Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.”?
- What long parcel of land stretches from Mexicali, Mexico, in the north to Cabo San Lucas in the south?
- About what 1989 time-traveling comedy did USA Today write, “Wow, dudes. Pu-trid.”?
- Which country in the world has the most Christians?
- What language does Wikipedia call “the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world”?
- What European capital is (among other things) the headquarters of Heineken International?
Look below the fold for the answers to last week’s questions…
- Africa’s largest desert, the Sahara, is also the world’s largest hot desert. What desert (also the setting for a track in Mario Kart) is Africa’s second largest? Answer: Kalah
- Think of the name of a travel-related lawbreaker that starts with S. Remove the S and one other letter, and the remaining letters, in order, will name another lawbreaker. What are the two words? (Thanks to Will Shortz for this brain-buster.) Answer: Smuggler & Mugger
- Millions of people have watched the Youtube videos created by “Dancing Matt.” But what is Matt’s last name? Answer: Harding (like Warren G.)
- China has two territories that are designated as Special Administrative Regions. One is Macau. The other is one of the most densely populated places in the world. What is it? Answer: Hong Kong
- What country’s flag, seen above, is the world’s only one that is not either a rectangle or a square? Answer: Nepal
- Identify the famous comedian behind the following bit: “Are there keys to a plane? Maybe that’s what those delays are sometimes, when you’re just sitting there at the gate. Maybe the pilot sits up there in the cockpit going, ‘Oh, I don’t believe this. Dammit…I did it again.'” Answer: Jerry Seinfeld (yes, not his best work)
- The name of what ten-letter African country contains four separate (not overlapping, not anagrammed) English words in it? Answer: Madagascar (get it?)
- What 1991 road-trip film ends with the two main characters driving off a cliff? Answer: Thelma and Louise
- What delicious Middle Eastern dip is made primarily of mashed chickpeas? Answer: Hummus
- What two large bodies of water does the Cape of Good Hope divide? Answer: The Atlantic and Indian Oceans